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The need for the University to serve the

Colony that housed it and to cater for the

requirements of students from overseas

again diminished the resources it could spare

task,

for its larger and more vital task and increased

the discrepancy between costs within China

and without.

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The language difficulty proved

the Colony was slow to accept

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the modified Chinese spoken end written

language-derrapadas developed a common

medium for all China

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Finally the

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growth of Chinese Universities in the present

century at once provided local attractions

of comparable and latterly even in a few examples higher standards, and intensified

the local pride which caused pressure to be

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trought to bare upen good Chinese students

to attempt to obtain their nigher education

in their own land. At the same time British

other

and Chinese Universities overseas skimmed off

and

some of the cream with them Hongkong University

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could not compete, and sources such as the

Boxer Indemnity Fund and the great American

Philanthropic educational foundations assisted

to finance a large proportion of such students

unversity

as sought at undergraduate career external to

Ehina.